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LEONARD WELLS VOLK (1828-1895)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 195 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LEONARD

WELLS VOLK (1828-1895)  ,
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American sculptor, was born at Wellstown (now Wells), Hamilton county, New York, on the 7th of November 1828 .. He first followed the trade of a marble cutter with his
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father at
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Pittsfield, Massachusetts . In 1848 he opened a studio at St Louis,
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Missouri, and in 1855 was sent by his wife's cousin, Stephen A . Douglas, to Rome to study . Returning to
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America in 1857, he settled in Chicago, where he helped to establish an Academy of Design and was for eight years its head . Among his
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principal
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works are the Douglas monument at Chicago and the Soldiers' and Sailors' monument at Rochester, New York, and statues of President Lincoln and Stephen A . Douglas (in the
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Illinois State Capitol at
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Springfield,
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Ill.), and of General James Shields (in Statuary Hall, Capitol, Washington), Elihu B . Washburn, Zachariah Chandler and David Davis . In 186o he made a
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life-mask (now in the
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National Museum, Washington) of Lincoln, of whom only one other, by Clark Mills in 1865, was ever made . His son, Douglas Volk (b . 1856), figure and portrait painter, who studied under J . L .

Ger6me in

Paris, became a member of the Society of American Artists in 188o and of the National Academy of Design in 1899 .

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